Then they decided that it needed to run some form of Windows.
The End.
Bull.
The XO laptop was a product of the western media lab and a take-it-or-leave-it constructivist philosophy of education that proclaimed that teachers were of no consequence and that kids and their families could teach themselves.
There have been a bare 1.8 million OLPC laptops distributed
Most to Uruguay and Peru and almost none outside the Western Hemisphere. The notion that anyone could have believed OLPC was a culturally neutral ---- truly global solution ---for primary education seems laughable in retrospect.
From the beginning, OLPC was competing against simplified versions of the generic Windows PC with MS Office.
From the point of view of the third-world education minister, these were marketable skills that prepared a student well for the higher grades and vocational education, SUGAR was always going to be a question mark.
More importantly. these stripped down Windows systems systems did not attempt to dictate teaching methods or courseware generally.
This is also aside from the fact that a private aircraft owner does not lose anything when his aircraft is "out of service".He's not losing passenger dollars.
"Privately owned" doesn't mean "recreational use only."
Wouldn't it be nice if you could go and download all the ported games that you originally bought for Windows?
Look at the stats for any Humble Bundle. The Linux gamer will pay a stiff premium for the Linux port from Windows --- and never yield a return more than 1/8 of Windows sales.
Note to the press: "Hackers" doesn't mean what you think is means.
Note to the geek: The meaning of a word takes on a life of its own when it comes into general public use. The outsized ego. mischief and malice of the black hat hacker is something anyone can see and understand and it overshadows everything else.
If only there was some way to prevent people from harassing me on this app. I could uninstall it, or just not use it - naw we'll just pressure the company to disable it in my whole area.
Everyone in school sees these posts. Everyone in school talks about these posts. Uninstalling the app on your kid's phone doesn't solve the problem.
This is often derided by those who fear that racist jurors will acquit criminals whose victims are a discriminated against group and praised by those who fear that the the overwhelming body of existing law can be used against pretty much anyone.
You don't have to look very far into our past to see how jury nullification really works.
Science is, by definition, always ready to accept a better theory.
New ideas can meet stiff resistance even in the sciences.
David Attenborough: ''I once asked one of my lecturers why he was not talking to us about continental drift and I was told, sneeringly, that if I could I prove there was a force that could move continents, then he might think about it. The idea was moonshine, I was informed.''
Geological maps of the time showed huge land bridges spanning the Atlantic and Indian oceans to account for the similarities of fauna and flora and the divisions of the Asian continent in the Permian era but failing to account for glaciation in India, Australia and South Africa.
To make the case for continental drift, you shouldn't have to demonstrate a priori that there is a force that can move continents, if you can produce sufficient evidence that the continents have, in fact, moved.
No, but it can be good enough for a jury to find them non-guilty despite the facts - a tradition that extends throughout US history and long before.
God help the geek who thinks that "jury nullification" will work for him.
Historically, it spares the home-town boy. The high school jock whose drunken spree ended with two kids dead in a hit and run. It's the outsider who risks getting nailed to the wall whether the evidence supports it or not.
The geek never quite comes to grips with the fact that he is the alien, the stranger, in the courtroom. The ne'er---do---well, the defendant who was born on the wrong side of the tracks.
The American juror is middle aged, middle class, small-C conservative.
He never responds well to the geek's cleverness or his arrogance --- and will not cut him any slack.
There's growing concern about software development contributions coming from export restricted countries by the US (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria) with Red Hat being based out of North Carolina, but should these governmental restrictions apply to an open-source software project?
In the name of god, why would a geek think open source development would give his US-based project Immunity from American law?
Export controls come with teeth that bite. Suggesting that your contributors conspire to evade those controls is an invitation to diasaster for everyone involved.
As long as all their examination pupils forfeit the marks from those questions, and if the school's reputation suffers as it slips down the league table, and if the government withdraws all public funding from the school for failing to follow the national curriculum.
The school is supported by a small religious community that is comfortable in its separation from the modern world ---
or more precisely, the modern world as the geek chooses to define it.
I am profoundly wary of using the power of the state bring everyone around to a uniform secularist world-view. In perfect confidence that world-view will be the same as your own world-view.
Sherlock Holmes had no room in his head for information that was not relevant to his work.
Why should a geek expect a layman to remember the meaning of acronyms that he almost never encounters in everyday use?
Web forums like Slashdot are notoriously informal and inconsistent in the mark-ups they will accept. AOL and other IMs simply presented the user with a toolbar of options. Bold, Italic, Insert URL and so on.
Why do some people get so emotional over Bitcoin? Is it bitterness over the fact that they dismissed it as a "stupid idea" back when they could have mined 1600 BTC in a couple of weeks on their laptop?
Bitcoin was a gold mine for the first to enter with the means to exploit it. No cause for bitterness there...
I'm not sure when miniature tubes came into being, but I think they are post-war. Vacuum tubes have reliability problems, dislike vibration, generate a lot of waste heat, and consume huge amounts of power. Not really good choices for a fighter aircraft.
This reminds me of one of the many problems with the magnetic detonators used on the Mark IV torpedo.
Ignite the charge when the torpedo is directly below the hull. It's a grand idea in theory. But a hell of a stretch for the vacuum tube technology of 1940.
then staying on Earth, living out your life and dying is also tantamount to suicide too.
Dying at age 90 with perhaps three generations of friends and family around to mourn your passing is not the same as choking to death at age 20 for the amusement of the voyeurs watching your reality TV show on Bravo.
The guidelines are much more reasonable: Daily prayer in space [was] not linked to sunrises and sunsets, but to a 24-hour cycle based on the "home" time zone of Baikonur, the Russian-leased launch site in Kazakhstan. Five meditations every 24 hours [would] suffice.
The geek wants to see a Martian colony in his lifetime.
Mars One is wish fulfillment --- magical thinking -- not science.
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Then they decided that it needed to run some form of Windows.
The End.
Bull.
The XO laptop was a product of the western media lab and a take-it-or-leave-it constructivist philosophy of education that proclaimed that teachers were of no consequence and that kids and their families could teach themselves.
There have been a bare 1.8 million OLPC laptops distributed
Most to Uruguay and Peru and almost none outside the Western Hemisphere. The notion that anyone could have believed OLPC was a culturally neutral ---- truly global solution ---for primary education seems laughable in retrospect.
From the beginning, OLPC was competing against simplified versions of the generic Windows PC with MS Office.
From the point of view of the third-world education minister, these were marketable skills that prepared a student well for the higher grades and vocational education, SUGAR was always going to be a question mark.
More importantly. these stripped down Windows systems systems did not attempt to dictate teaching methods or courseware generally.
If only his assets were all in bitcoins, then the US government wouldn't be able to freeze them.
What makes bitcoins different from any other asset, real or intangible, that can be converted into cash?
This is also aside from the fact that a private aircraft owner does not lose anything when his aircraft is "out of service".He's not losing passenger dollars.
"Privately owned" doesn't mean "recreational use only."
Wouldn't it be nice if you could go and download all the ported games that you originally bought for Windows?
Look at the stats for any Humble Bundle. The Linux gamer will pay a stiff premium for the Linux port from Windows --- and never yield a return more than 1/8 of Windows sales.
If you don't know who ESR is you don't belong here.
3 PM ET Monday and there have been a bare 63 responses posted to "Ask ESR." Most of them content-free.
Either ESR said nothing worth repeating or no one gives a damn.
Since the "majority" has not a faint idea what hacking is, or was, i refuse letting them assign new meaning to words they dojn't understand.
Brave words.
But the tide will wash over you anyway.
Note to the press: "Hackers" doesn't mean what you think is means.
Note to the geek: The meaning of a word takes on a life of its own when it comes into general public use. The outsized ego. mischief and malice of the black hat hacker is something anyone can see and understand and it overshadows everything else.
gossip was fun, but no one really took it seriously
I remember taking it seriously --- as the victim of harassment and I remember others being hurt.
Did some precious perfect snowflake get his wittle feelers hurt?
This is the language of harassment --- belittling the victim --- and I have never heard it used in any other way.
If only there was some way to prevent people from harassing me on this app. I could uninstall it, or just not use it - naw we'll just pressure the company to disable it in my whole area.
Everyone in school sees these posts. Everyone in school talks about these posts. Uninstalling the app on your kid's phone doesn't solve the problem.
This is often derided by those who fear that racist jurors will acquit criminals whose victims are a discriminated against group and praised by those who fear that the the overwhelming body of existing law can be used against pretty much anyone.
You don't have to look very far into our past to see how jury nullification really works.
Elon Musk = D.D. Harriman, only with bigger dreams.
and fewer resources.
Science is, by definition, always ready to accept a better theory.
New ideas can meet stiff resistance even in the sciences.
David Attenborough: ''I once asked one of my lecturers why he was not talking to us about continental drift and I was told, sneeringly, that if I could I prove there was a force that could move continents, then he might think about it. The idea was moonshine, I was informed.''
Geological maps of the time showed huge land bridges spanning the Atlantic and Indian oceans to account for the similarities of fauna and flora and the divisions of the Asian continent in the Permian era but failing to account for glaciation in India, Australia and South Africa.
Continental drift
To make the case for continental drift, you shouldn't have to demonstrate a priori that there is a force that can move continents, if you can produce sufficient evidence that the continents have, in fact, moved.
No, but it can be good enough for a jury to find them non-guilty despite the facts - a tradition that extends throughout US history and long before.
God help the geek who thinks that "jury nullification" will work for him.
Historically, it spares the home-town boy. The high school jock whose drunken spree ended with two kids dead in a hit and run. It's the outsider who risks getting nailed to the wall whether the evidence supports it or not.
The geek never quite comes to grips with the fact that he is the alien, the stranger, in the courtroom. The ne'er---do---well, the defendant who was born on the wrong side of the tracks.
The American juror is middle aged, middle class, small-C conservative.
He never responds well to the geek's cleverness or his arrogance --- and will not cut him any slack.
There's growing concern about software development contributions coming from export restricted countries by the US (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria) with Red Hat being based out of North Carolina, but should these governmental restrictions apply to an open-source software project?
In the name of god, why would a geek think open source development would give his US-based project Immunity from American law?
Export controls come with teeth that bite. Suggesting that your contributors conspire to evade those controls is an invitation to diasaster for everyone involved.
As long as all their examination pupils forfeit the marks from those questions, and if the school's reputation suffers as it slips down the league table, and if the government withdraws all public funding from the school for failing to follow the national curriculum.
The school is supported by a small religious community that is comfortable in its separation from the modern world ---
or more precisely, the modern world as the geek chooses to define it.
I am profoundly wary of using the power of the state bring everyone around to a uniform secularist world-view. In perfect confidence that world-view will be the same as your own world-view.
It has been tried before, after all.
Sherlock Holmes had no room in his head for information that was not relevant to his work.
Why should a geek expect a layman to remember the meaning of acronyms that he almost never encounters in everyday use?
Web forums like Slashdot are notoriously informal and inconsistent in the mark-ups they will accept. AOL and other IMs simply presented the user with a toolbar of options. Bold, Italic, Insert URL and so on.
Reason being is a hyperlink is a verb or action while pointing is an expression.
Gibberish,
Why do some people get so emotional over Bitcoin? Is it bitterness over the fact that they dismissed it as a "stupid idea" back when they could have mined 1600 BTC in a couple of weeks on their laptop?
Bitcoin was a gold mine for the first to enter with the means to exploit it. No cause for bitterness there...
I'm not sure when miniature tubes came into being, but I think they are post-war. Vacuum tubes have reliability problems, dislike vibration, generate a lot of waste heat, and consume huge amounts of power. Not really good choices for a fighter aircraft.
This reminds me of one of the many problems with the magnetic detonators used on the Mark IV torpedo.
Ignite the charge when the torpedo is directly below the hull. It's a grand idea in theory. But a hell of a stretch for the vacuum tube technology of 1940.
database management from an online bookstore
The high volume retailer is the right place to go if you are studying the successes and failures of database management.
Bitcoin is still young. This is a time or risk and opportunity. Besides, if you really think anyone should invest money...
Bitcoin first has to prove itself as a currency.
Promoting Bitcoin as a money-maker --- an investment opportunity like tulip futures --- will destroy it.
Personally, I think "confidentiality for settlement" should be illegal anyways
Get off your high horse.
Taking a case to trial is an ordeal for both sides --- settling the matterquietly and privately out of court is how most of these stories end,
If you were talking about VP8 you might have a point, but VP9 is widely superior to h.264 in a number of areas and competetive with h.265.
No links = No proof.
then staying on Earth, living out your life and dying is also tantamount to suicide too.
Dying at age 90 with perhaps three generations of friends and family around to mourn your passing is not the same as choking to death at age 20 for the amusement of the voyeurs watching your reality TV show on Bravo.
The guidelines are much more reasonable: Daily prayer in space [was] not linked to sunrises and sunsets, but to a 24-hour cycle based on the "home" time zone of Baikonur, the Russian-leased launch site in Kazakhstan. Five meditations every 24 hours [would] suffice.
The geek wants to see a Martian colony in his lifetime.
Mars One is wish fulfillment --- magical thinking -- not science.